There is no specific noun for 'beer' for example. You have to say 'telo nasa'. Literally, this is 'crazy water' (telo - water, nasa - crazy). This doesn't even mean beer; it can mean any type of alcohol.
The Toki Pona word for 'room/building' is tomo. So, to say 'bar' we need to say something that translates as 'alcohol room'. If you're not careful, you can quickly start constructing some odd sentences. Tomo telo nasa (room water crazy) is the logical construction with Toki Pona grammar, but this actually means 'crazy toilet'.
We need to add an extra word in, pi. This is a preposition (sort of) meaning 'of'. It separates a noun from another noun that has an adjective. 'Bar' becomes tomo pi telo nasa, a building of alcohol.
How would you order a beer in Toki Pona? You're going to have to describe what beer is. You could do this with colours - though there's no word for brown. You might try jelo loje, a reddish shade of yellow. Lots of alcoholic drinks are brown/amber in colour - whisky, beer, rum, etc. You could try to distinguish between strong and weak alcohol. You might not like spirits, so ask for delicious alcohol (telo nasa pona). The person behind the bar might hate beer but love whisky...
You might just end up pointing. Then, of course, you have to choose between lagers, ales, stouts, pilsners and all the other types of beer...
A simple matter of ordering a drink involves some linguistic gymnastics. You may have to use a long string of words just to get a beer.
Learning a new noun is probably easier.
https://www.quora.com/Does-a-natural-language-as-simple-as-Toki-Pona-exist
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